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| Village of the Damned |
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  (5/10)
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Runtime: 96 m |
| Public Rating: 6.04 (26 votes) |
Director: John Carpenter |
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| Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror |
Year: 1995 |
| Writer(s): David Himmelstein |
| Reviewed by: Nate Anderson |
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This movie has always been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. It's far from great cinema, and in fact, in many circles it's downright awful, but every now and again a person gets hungry for some cheese, and this is the Kraft Mac and Cheese of Horror flicks.
The story begins in the town of Midwich, which is a somewhat isolated coastal town. A weird phenomena occurs in the town causing everyone to black out for six hours. After that, everyone wakes up and has no idea what happened. This incident has caught the attention of government scientists, led by a chain-smoking Kirstie Alley.
It is revealed that on that day ten women were mysteriously impregnated, and we have no idea how or why. The town doctor, played by Christopher Reeve, assures everyone that there is no reason to automatically panic, and Kirstie Alley, cigarette firmly attached to her mouth, waves money in front of the simpleton residents as an incentive to keep their children. They all decide to keep the children and eventually all the mothers go into labor simultaneously.
Over the course of the years, the nine children (One of them didn't make it though the delivery process alive) have grown up together in their own creepy little collective group, with platinum blond hair and glow in the dark eyes. Oh yeah, and they can read peoples thoughts, and control them too (which is only used to cause them serious physical harm). All the children are completely emotionless, except for the odd child out, David, who manages to actually develop some emotion, which seperates him from the evil children.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone, but if you enjoy either the science fiction genre, or the horror genre, you could do ALOT worse.
Besides, how can you go wrong with a movie that casts Luke Skywalker, I mean Mark Hamill, as a priest?
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